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Stanley Fish quotes: Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Stanley Fish quotes: It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Stanley Fish quotes: No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Stanley Fish quotes: The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Stanley Fish quotes: I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Stanley Fish quotes: The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Stanley Fish quotes: We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Stanley Fish quotes: Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.

Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.

Stanley Fish quotes: Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Stanley Fish quotes: The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..

Stanley Fish quotes: Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Stanley Fish quotes: ...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.

...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.

Stanley Fish quotes: The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

Stanley Fish quotes: This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Stanley Fish quotes: Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

Stanley Fish quotes: Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?